9/23 Carnegie Art Center Opening

EYES AND EARS: Sound Needs Image
On view: September 23 - October 22, 2005
Opening reception and performance: Friday, September 23, 7 - 9 p.m.

This exhibition highlights the work of area media and sound artists interested in composition and new methods of collaboration. This exhibition will be a witness to the development of original sound and image works that are collaborative and improvised, trustful and open to new ways of working between media and sound artists.

Twelve media artists have been invited to produce an original, silent (or near silent) short film or video piece to be "read" as a graphic score by variations of performers from local new music group, The Open Music Ensemble. Live recordings and performances of the scores in sound will be paired with visual works, developed especially for this exhibition. A live concert of selected works will be performed the night of the opening, Friday, September 23.

Featured media artists include Dorothea Braemer, Elliot Caplan, Stephanie Gray, Siew-wai Kok, Carl Lee, Brian Milbrand, Vince Mistretta, Jan Nagle, Alan Rhodes, Kelly Spivey, Carolyn Tennant, and Stephen Vitiello.

Participating musicians include Steve Baczkowski (horns), J.T Rinker (trombone), Josh DeScherer (bass), Ben Harris (violin), Leah Muir (cello), Otto Muller (accordian), Chris Reba (bass), Will Redman (percussion), Bill Sack (electric guitar), Andrew Walsh (contrabass), and Todd Whitman (horns and various alternative noise makers).

The Open Music Ensemble is a collective of over a dozen Buffalo-based musicians affiliated with The Open Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization for composers and artists dedicated to the promotion of artistic expression based on unconventional, experimental, open-form, and -- especially -- graphical, forms of communicating musical ideas.